This article is presenting five ways to prevent poverty. It stresses the fact that stopping the terrible consequences of poverty is a community move and effort. It encourages that individuals work together and start doing what they can in their own position.

Government without the individuals’ effort is useless. Because, poverty will not be eliminated without the cooperation of everyone. It should start with yourself.
There are 5 ways to prevent poverty:
Have a self discipline.
Cooperation
Educate individuals on how to handle money.
Provide holistic health resources and support to community members
Create a positive empowering environment that encourages individuals to dream, create a vision, and strive to be the best they can be for their community, family, and themselves
No poverty measure is perfect, but the official federal measure is flawed by the fact that most benefits provided by government, including most cash and in-kind benefits and all benefits.

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Although educating people on how to handle money can be a useful concept to learn it wouldn’t necessarily take a toll on poverty on its own. I believe the people should instead seek ways to save money for certain organizations helping people living in poverty giving them insight on how to donate effectively. This can be a learning experience for those that want to help the community as well as give ways to manage money productively at the same time. It’s a win-win situation.

The following focuses on the issues extreme poverty can cause in society. It displays how causes and effects of poverty all relate in such a way that they always occur at the same time.

Homelessness, or extreme poverty, carries with it a particularly strong set of risks for families, especially children. Compared to children living in poverty but having homes, homeless children are less likely to receive proper nutrition and immunization. Hence, they experience more health problems. Nearly all possible consequences of poverty have an impact on children lives. Poor infrastructures, unemployment, lack of basic services and income reflect on their lack of education, malnutrition, violence at home and outside, child labor, diseases of all kinds, transmitted by the family or through the environment. Issues like hunger, illness and thirst are both causes and effects of poverty. Not having access to water means that you are poor, and being poor also means that you may not be able to afford water or food either. In other words, poor health, lack of water or housing, child abuse or violence fuel a cycle of poverty in which so many end up trapped for life.

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The fact that people are living in the streets and in extreme poverty is devastating because they are more at risk of health problems. They don’t have money to provide them with shelter, water, food, medicine, education and basic needs. People are dying because of health issues and lack of access to basic human necessities. Poverty is the main reason for this.

3. Activism is KEY
Join an organization/non-profit…they are GREAT! Pick things and events to do with poverty to work with. From that group, plan things such as events and other things that would gather proceeds to donate for poverty.
Or maybe start your own organization! Even though kids may be homeless, it’s not a bad idea to team-up with other organizations such as Planned Parenthood and go from there. In her book Social Media: How to Engage, Share and Connect, Regina Luttrellnotes to analyze your audience.
In this case, not just a PR Practitioner keeps these principles in mind – anyone who is running an organization should.

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I really liked this article because the topic, Poverty, is one I am also attempting to raise awareness on in my blog site. I agree with you that our duty as citizens is to volunteer and if we can, join a non-profit organization. I found it interesting that you provided multiple ways we can help solve the problem of poverty. Since you said activism is key, my friends and I are attempting to become activists ourselves!

Poverty effecting our youth, the next generation, is a HUGE issue. In roughly 20% of New York City neighborhoods at least 30% of households are living below the federal poverty line. http://furmancenter.org/thestoop/entry/focus-on-poverty

https://www.amny.com/news/poverty-stats-show-roughly-30-of-nyc-children-are-poor-furman-center-says-1.13712114Nearly 1.7 million New Yorkers — or 1 in every 5 city residents — lived below the poverty line between 2011 and 2015, the largest number seen in the city since 1970, according to a report by the NYU Furman Center, released Wednesday.

And of those residents, children under 18 were more likely to be living in poverty than any other age group, with 535,700 kids, or roughly 30 percent of the city’s youth in poverty. We can NOT allow for more than 500,00 kids to live in poverty. They are our future. Especially if we as a city and country continue to modernize, we can’t leave our youth behind.

As we looked into poverty we realized how many charitable organization are fighting against this issue. We focused on those in NYC, and inform on its goal and how you and many others are able to donate/help! Robin Hood is one of these and their mission is to help the 1.8 millions lives of New Yorkers with low-income and is one of the biggest NYC organizations fighting against poverty. The money donated goes directly to the those in need and they have been able to leave great impacts such as “keeping more than 200,000 New Yorkers from going hungry, ” and “helping more than 10,000 of our neighbors secure jobs to helping nearly 11,000 remain stably housed and off the streets”. Be sure to check their site to learn more and donate if possible! ASTEP is another organization striving to end poverty through the arts, to find more information or to donate check out. WhyHunger enriches communities by providing food that nourishes those with low incomes at. There is many more organizations but here are a few that help poverty in their own ways, one by food, arts and in general help strive against poverty in NYC. Do consider checking these sites out and if possible donate, small or little in the end you are still helping fight against poverty.

As mentioned before poverty is a big international issue that has been present for many years. But it is also a national and state issue. Poverty can affect people’s access to adequate food, stable housing, and reliable health care. According to City limits.org New York City’s senior population is over 1.4 million and by 2030, that number will rise to over 1.8 million, making seniors twenty percent of city residents. They can expect to live well into their 70s and 80s since average life expectancies have peaked. All this being said nearly 20 percent of seniors today live in poverty. So what does this mean for us? Well at the rate that poverty is increasing for seniors as well as the population more people will be affected. New York City’s seniors will have to look for ways to pay for housing, food and healthcare on fixed and limited incomes. This evidently shows how we must do something for a change. An increase in poverty in the elderly means that we will have to come up with ways to increase the amount of government care the seniors receive. At a financial standpoint there is a very slim chance for anything to be done if we don’t voice out for our people. Seniors need the care… we all do and the increase in poverty isn’t only for the elders. Consequently, it is going to to affect everyone. Now this is an alarm for everyone to wake up and put in as much as effort as they can for our community.

Hey guys I am Lidia a member of the People Over Poverty (POP) campaign. I am so excited to share what we have planned and you will not be disappointed. But lets not get too ahead of ourselves yet. A little about me, I currently attend a New York City public high school: The Baccalaureate School for Global Education. I am a ninth grade student and I am very excited for this campaign. Poverty has been a world issue for years and as a community it is very important to help those in need. No one person should be left behind. It is our responsibility to fight against the negative consequences of poverty step by step. Starting a local campaign can lead to a bigger movement. We can’t wait to bring you along on our journey… Let’s help bring change to our society today!!!

Hi! Welcome to our blog, my name is Ashley and I am a student at BSGE. Our goal is to bring awareness to the issue of Poverty both in NYC and nationally. Despite this being a page made because of a project we are very serious about the topic and will be sure to inform on this problem. Weekly blogs will be made and our social media pages will be uploaded in another post so be sure to check it out! We appreciate the feedback and concerns so be sure to email us at popbsge@gmail.com. I’m excited for this journey and see the growth of both this project and of ourselves. Please always be appreciative as you will see how lives of both children and seniors are affected because of poverty. Thank you and I can not wait to see how POP progresses!